Construction Engineer
Job Description
Job title: Construction Engineer
Company: Balfour Beatty
Job description: About the role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick team as a Construction Engineer on the Hinkley Point C Project and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
About Hinkley Point C
The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.
Marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of our nuclear power industry, Hinkley Point C will make a major contribution to the UKs move to reduce carbon emissions. The electricity generated by its two EPR reactors will offset 9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year, or 600 million tonnes over its 60-year lifespan.
What you’ll be doing
As a Construction Engineer you will have the following accountabilities.
- Lead, manage and motivate the team through implementation of best practice.
- Delivery of discipline specific construction scope of works to support the project and construction activities. This includes cradle to grave installation of components associated with the specific discipline for the role.
- Management through liaison with other project groups, the safety, quality and schedule adherence of the work scope for the MEH Alliance on HPC.
- Ensuring documents are compliant with latest works information.
- Ownership and driving of deliverables.
- Prioritisation and ownershipof documentation to enable construction works as per the level 4 plan.
- Support continuous improvement programmes to improve process/procedures
- Provide and demonstrate a positive HSE leadership, building a strong and compliant HS&E culture throughout the whole construction life cycle of the Project.
- Ensure compliance with all nuclear safety and site licence requirements.
- Review and feedback on suitability of level of resource and supporting equipment to effectively run the support function.
Who we’re looking for
- Proven track record of working in a highly regulated sector, preferably in nuclear and within the specific discipline of the role title.
- Knowledge and experience in Safe Systems of Work
- Experience working on major construction projects.
- Experienced in delivering and operating at Engineer or Senior Engineer level, ideally including experience working within Joint Ventures.
- Ability to gain high level security clearance.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver amazing projects in challenging conditions; developing, managing and maintaining the vital infrastructure and public spaces that modern economies, societies and communities rely on.
About us
Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.
We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.
At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.
Expected salary:
Location: Taunton, Somerset
